HLS 16RS-677 ORIGINAL
2016 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 464
BY REPRESENTATIVE BISHOP
MINERALS: Provides for pipeline safety inspection fees
1 AN ACT
2To amend and reenact R.S. 30:560(B) and (C) and 706 and to enact R.S. 30:560(D), relative
3 to pipelines; to provide relative to pipeline safety inspection fees for certain
4 pipelines; to provide relative to the amounts and imposition of such fees; and to
5 provide for related matters.
6Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
7 Section 1. R.S. 30:560(B) and (C) and 706 are hereby amended and reenacted and
8R.S. 30:560(D) is hereby enacted to read as follows:
9 §560. Pipeline safety inspection fees
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11 B. There is hereby imposed upon all distributors of jurisdictional gas which
12 own and operate any jurisdictional gas distribution system which comes under the
13 supervision of the assistant secretary pursuant to R.S. 30:551(B) an annual safety and
14 odorization inspection fee not to exceed twenty-two dollars and forty cents per mile
15 of pipeline used in a jurisdictional gas distribution system one dollar per service line,
16 or four hundred dollars per pipeline facility, whichever is greater. The commissioner
17 shall annually review the fee amount and may revise it in accordance with the
18 Administrative Procedure Act.
19 C. There is hereby imposed upon all distributors of jurisdictional gas which
20 own or operate any jurisdictional gas gathering or transmission system which comes
21 under the supervision of the assistant secretary pursuant to R.S. 30:551(B) an annual
22 safety inspection fee not to exceed forty-four dollars and eighty cents per mile of
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1 pipeline used in a jurisdictional gas pipeline system, or eight hundred dollars per
2 pipeline facility, whichever is greater. The commissioner shall annually review the
3 fee amount and may revise it in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act.
4 D. The annual inspection fees imposed by this Section are for the purpose
5 of enforcing the natural gas pipeline safety standards and practice required by this
6 Chapter and regulations promulgated thereunder. All fees collected by the
7 commissioner shall be reasonably related to the services provided and shall be used
8 by the office of conservation solely for the purposes of that program.
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10 §706. Fees
11 In order to implement this Part, every person engaged in the transportation
12 of hazardous liquids or who owns or operates intrastate pipeline facilities for the
13 transportation of hazardous liquids shall be assessed an annual fee which shall not
14 exceed twenty-two dollars and forty cents forty-four dollars and eighty cents for each
15 mile or fraction thereof of pipeline operated or four eight hundred dollars per
16 pipeline facility, whichever is greater. The commissioner shall annually review the
17 fee amount and may revise it not to exceed twenty-two dollars and forty cents forty-
18 four dollars and eighty cents per mile in accordance with the Administrative
19 Procedure Act. All fees collected by the commissioner shall be reasonably related
20 to the services provided and shall be used by the office of conservation solely for the
21 purposes of that program.
DIGEST
The digest printed below was prepared by House Legislative Services. It constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument. The keyword, one-liner, abstract, and digest do not constitute
part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
HB 464 Original 2016 Regular Session Bishop
Abstract: Provides for inspection fees for jurisdictional gas pipeline systems and hazardous
liquids pipelines.
Present law provides for an annual pipeline inspection fee of not more $22.40 per mile or
$400 per pipeline facility, whichever is greater. Specifies that the fee is subject to annual
review by the commissioner of conservation.
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Proposed law changes the fee from $22.40 per mile to $1 per service line. Proposed law
retains the present law alternative fee of $400 per pipeline facility, whichever is greater.
Proposed law provides an annual safety inspection fee not to exceed $44.80 per mile of
pipeline used in a jurisdictional gas pipeline system, or $800 per pipeline facility, whichever
is greater, imposed on all distributors of jurisdictional gas which own or operate any
jurisdictional gas gathering or transmission system. Specifies that the fee is subject to
annual review by the commissioner of conservation.
Present law establishes an annual inspection fee on hazardous liquid pipelines to fund safety
regulations of such pipelines. Specifies that the maximum fee is $22.40 per mile of pipeline
or $400 per pipeline facility, whichever is greater. Provides that the fee is subject to annual
review by the commissioner of conservation. Requires the commissioner to annually review
the fee amount and authorizes the commissioner to revise it up to $22.40.
Proposed law increases the fee from not to exceed $22.40 per mile or $400 per pipeline
facility, whichever is greater to not to exceed $44.80 per mile or $800 per pipeline facility,
whichever is greater. Increases the commissioner's authorization to revise the fee from not
to exceed $22.40 to not to exceed $44.80.
(Amends R.S. 30:560(B) and (C) and 706; Adds R.S. 30:560(D))
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